It's time to address anti-Semitism.
Jewish people are a small minority of the world's population, especially after the genocide of the last century (and previous purges and genocides). They are a vulnerable minority.
There is a global rise in anti-Semitism that is accompanying the rise of white supremacy and nationalism. We ignore this at our peril.
Please take a look at how much violent rhetoric is directed at George Soros, for instance. There are other wealthy progressives. The hatred directed at Soros is out of all proportion to his philanthropy. Why? Is it because he is Eastern European and Jewish?
Look at all the conspiracy theories frightening people about some shadowy "Jewish conspiracy" involving the media and banking. Where have we seen this before? In Nazi propaganda as they rose to power.
Be aware. Dictatorships build their power by singling out groups of people as "the enemy."
Speak up. Speak out.
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I would love if we a people could rise and take him out. He's just as dangerous if not more so than Hitler. I'm normally against war but I would love to see Putin and his troll army bombed back to the stone ages. 
Attacked By Alt-Right Trolls, A Jewish Journalist Links Trump To The Rise Of Hate
March 19, 20181:47 PM ET
Heard on Fresh Air
Terry Gross
Trump "has made nationalist policy into the policy of the executive branch," says New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman. His new book, (((Semitism))), is about being Jewish in the Trump era.
Semitism
Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
by Jonathan Weisman
Hardcover, 238 pages
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. After linking to an article about the rise of fascism in America, my guest, Jonathan Weisman, became the target of neo-Nazi trolls on Twitter barraging him with anti-Semitic insults and threats. Weisman is a former congressional correspondent for The New York Times and is now deputy Washington editor, handling Time's coverage of Congress as well as some political coverage. In his new book, he describes his encounters with white nationalists, writes about some of their leaders, looks at the connections between white nationalists and the Trump campaign and administration, and examines some of the history of anti-Semitism in America. The book is called "
((Semitism))): Being Jewish In America In The Age Of Trump."
Jonathan Weisman, welcome back to FRESH AIR. Tell us how the anti-Semitic attacks against you started. What did you first tweet out that got the response?
JONATHAN WEISMAN: Well, it was May of 2016. It was a time when Donald Trump was actually kind of marauding through the Republican primaries, but somehow, the Republican establishment still thought there was some way to stop him. And Robert Kagan, a Brookings Institution scholar, had written an op-ed for The Washington Post on how fascism comes to America. And I wasn't thinking much. I do this a lot. I just took a quotation from it and put it on Twitter and sent it out there. And I got a reply back on Twitter from somebody identifying themself (ph) as CyberTrump. And all it was was a two-word missive. It said, hello, Weisman. But Weisman was in these three parentheses - surrounded by three parentheses. And, you know, obviously, Weisman's a pretty Jewish name, so I intuited that this notation, my name in brackets, had something to do with my Judaism, my Jewish background.
So I answered, care to explain? And what I got back was this odd response - what ho, the vaunted Ashkenazi intelligence. CyberTrump came back with me. He said, it's a dog whistle, fool, belling the cat from my fellow goyim. And that was it. From that moment on, I was kind of under an onslaught on Twitter. It kind of bled into voicemails sometimes and email from anti-Semites. It was - the viciousness of it really took me aback because, of course, we don't really think of this country as overtly anti-Semitic. And the old anti-Semitic tropes, the imagery, the violence really, really shocked me.
GROSS: So these triple parentheses bracketing your name, signifying that you're Jewish, is that a marker so that other people who want to attack you for being Jewish can figure out, get him?
WEISMAN: Well, unbeknownst to me and frankly unbeknownst to virtually anyone in the world, there was a piece of software that was being offered as a Google plug-in. It was very nondescript in its name. It was called the Coincidence Indicator (ph). And what it did was allow people - racist, bigots, anti-Semites and the alt-right - to actually search for those three parentheses. You see, on Google, Google searches don't pick up punctuation. They only pick up letters. And if you had plugged in this Coincidence Indicator, you could go hunt out these three parentheses. So it literally was belling the cat. Anybody who had that, if somebody on the Internet wanted to go find a marked man or woman, he could plug in the Coincidence Indicator and find the mark. And I had been marked.
GROSS: So it's like the Internet equivalent of wearing a Jewish star or, you know, a pink triangle during the Nazi era, in a way.
WEISMAN: Exactly, exactly. I would put it exactly that way. And in fact, a lot of the images that were sent to me were me with a yellow Jewish star sewed to whatever I happened to be wearing in that motif.
GROSS: So give us a sense of some of the hate tweets that you got from the neo-Nazi trolls.
WEISMAN: Well, so much of it was Trump-oriented. There's one meme that they sent to a lot of Jewish journalists with the journalist's face in a gas chamber and a smiling Donald Trump in Nazi uniform flicking the switch for the gas chamber. There were images of my face and other journalists' faces superimposed on a victim of the Holocaust leaning over and about to be shot in the head by a Nazi. There was - one of my favorites was the very famous gates of Auschwitz. But instead of the German, you know, make work - work makes you free, it said, mocking America great again. A lot of - there was a lot of Holocaust imagery infused with make America great or Donald Trump's name or face. It was the first real understanding that there were these shock troops of the Trump campaign who were just flagrantly racist, bigoted and anti-Semitic.
GROSS: Do you think that Donald Trump knew about this kind of tweet using his slogan, make America great, using his name in such anti-Semitic ways?
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594894657/attacked-by-alt-right-trolls-a-jewish-journalist-links-trump-to-the-rise-of-hate
One of the last emails I received from this freak was so very disgusting.
I've had him on my ignore list ever since.
I will not feed this beast called hatred!
I really need people to wake up and realize - if you aren't one of 'them' - you are one of us.
If each group in the 'one of us' stands strong with the other - we CONQUER them.
This is do or die.
I may have more to write later, I am not sure. I am still a bit taken aback, though I suspected something like this was a matter of "when" not "if". AS horrific as this is, anti-Semitism in all forms needs to be condemned, no matter WHO is saying or doing it. A form of anti-Semitism (which is often seen with other groups too and takes on their anti-group name when used against them), is demanding Jews, especially from another camp "speak out" or are questioned as to what they have been doing overall (see the above comment about the JDL 
).
A recent post in LBN about the new racist robocall against Andrew Gillum in the Florida governor race didn't even mention the anti-Semitism in the message! Yes, it is important to call out racism, but if anti-Semitism is also present, it MUST be called out too! It should not be "sidelined". The spate of anti-Semitic attack on Soros in LOCAL political ads MUST be called out when they happen. The conflation of anti-Semitism and "criticism" of Israel needs to be examined and called out when it happens. Attacking people by making anti-Israel remarks because the person in question is Jewish IS anti-Semitic and has to stop! People have to stop using common anti-Semitic themes against Jews, even the right-wing ones, when those themes are called out as anti-Semitic.
It was only a matter of time before this happened, and sadly, I think we may see another event soon, possibly the assassination of a Jewish leader or politician.
I will place these here...
Study: Online attacks on Jews ramp up before Election Day
By The Associated Press
October 26, 2018 1:49 pm
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Far-right extremists have ramped up an intimidating wave of anti-Semitic harassment against Jewish journalists, political candidates and others ahead of next month’s U.S. midterm elections, according to a report released Friday by a Jewish civil rights group.
The Anti-Defamation League’s report says its researchers analyzed more than 7.5 million Twitter messages from Aug. 31 to Sept. 17 and found nearly 30 percent of the accounts repeatedly tweeting derogatory terms about Jews appeared to be automated “bots.”
But accounts controlled by real-life humans often mount the most “worrisome and harmful” anti-Semitic attacks, sometimes orchestrated by leaders of neo-Nazi or white nationalist groups, the researchers said.
“Both anonymity and automation have been used in online propaganda offensives against the Jewish community during the 2018 midterms,” they wrote.
ADL national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said the midterm elections have been a “rallying point” for far-right extremists to organize efforts to spread hate online.
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Thank you for taking the time to speak out!
